The course instructor is Tina Harding, Water Resource Education Manager, ND Project WET Explore Your Watershed, ND Department of Water Resources. Mrs. Harding will provide instruction and oversight instruction during the entire course. Supplemental instructors will be used as the course outline indicates including number of contributing hours. These facilitators will help teach course agenda items and help students transfer course learning to the classroom situation and provide analysis and interpretation. Mrs. Harding will oversee all supplemental instructors and minor presenters to ensure adherence to course mission, purpose and learning objectives. 

Eighteen individuals and tour guides representing many local, state and federal agencies, organizations and industries will present the following watershed issues: flood control and

protection; sport fisheries/enforcement, best management practices; riparian restoration; endangered/threatened species; water and wastewater treatment; watershed health, issues and concerns; habitat restoration; water use, supply and distribution; industrial water management; riparian land use and point source/nonpoint source pollution issues; environmental water quality assessments; sovereign land management; private land/water management issues and energy development. The environmental investigations will cover the following topics: conducting a macro-invertebrate assessment and bio assessment; conducting a chemical assessment; conducting a wetland assessments; conducting a stream flow and stream life assessment.